Instead of suing them again, perhaps the government should remove requirements that institutional investors rely on ratings in the first place, said Lawrence J.

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Customers will be vetted according to the regular Exante capitalization requirements and margin funds would be provided through institutional broker financing at a fixed % over LIBOR.

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The FTSE CSAG Terror-Free Index Series was, in turn, developed by these impartial index and research providers, respectively, in response to the sorts of exclusion requirements being adopted by these and other state governments, public institutional investors, private sector organizations and individuals.

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Cold War logic on either side of its divide lent support to ruling elites across the Muslim world as they placed their survival in power ahead of the need to work out some institutional arrangement allowing for participation of the widest segment of the population in meeting the requirements of democracy and socioeconomic progress.

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The main reason why margin requirements make little difference to share prices is that most prices are set by institutional investors, and not, as popular myth suggests, by crazy day traders.

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On top of these basic requirements, Gerstein further required companies to have no recent downward EPS revisions, and he wanted to see institutional buying.

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